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Jeremy Leasor has over 20 years of IT experience, including 3 years as a security engineer developing Go libraries for attack surface analysis, stig/fisma data imports, and various other utilities,10 years as a lead database administrator (SQL Server) of mission essential system environments, and 8 years as a developer DBA and .NET developer all within the government domain. He enjoys creating various utilities in Go outside of the office hours. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with the family, camping, coaching his kid's soccer team and getting demolished by his kids in Smash Brothers.
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Preface 1. Variables and Operators FREE CHAPTER 2. Logic and Loops 3. Core Types 4. Complex Types 5. Functions 6. Errors 7. Interfaces 8. Packages 9. Basic Debugging 10. About Time 11. Encoding and Decoding (JSON) 12. Files and Systems 13. SQL and Databases 14. Using the Go HTTP Client 15. HTTP Servers 16. Concurrent Work 17. Using Go Tools 18. Security 19. Special Features Appendix

15. HTTP Servers

Overview

This chapter introduces you to different ways of creating an HTTP server in order to accept requests from the internet. You will be able to understand how a website can be accessed and how it can respond to a form. You will also learn how to respond to requests from another software program.

You'll be able to create an HTTP server rendering a simple message. You will learn how to create an HTTP server rendering complex data structures which serves local static files. Further you will create an HTTP server rendering dynamic pages and work with different ways of routing. By the end of this chapter you will also learn to create a REST service, accept data through a form, and accept JSON data.

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Delio D'Anna is an experienced software engineer with a company experience mainly developed working on web applications. Although he has been working mostly under a LAMP stack on the back-end side and with JavaScript on the front end, he is interested in a wide range of languages/technologies and always open to learn/apply what comes new from the IT world. His programming background started with the study of algorithms and artificial intelligence but his working career proceeded in the open source world programming high traffic websites in php/MySQL/Postgres/JavaScript.
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Gobin Sougrakpam started in IT as a Systems Integration Developer for large scale enterprises. His love for automation see him move into a Software Developer role. He currently works as Golang developer, creating automation solutions for Infrastructure platforms like VMware and AWS. Gobin enjoys playing his guitar in his free time.
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Jeremy Leasor has over 20 years of IT experience, including 3 years as a security engineer developing Go libraries for attack surface analysis, stig/fisma data imports, and various other utilities,10 years as a lead database administrator (SQL Server) of mission essential system environments, and 8 years as a developer DBA and .NET developer all within the government domain. He enjoys creating various utilities in Go outside of the office hours. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with the family, camping, coaching his kid's soccer team and getting demolished by his kids in Smash Brothers.
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Sam Hennessy started working as a software developer in 2002, switching over to using Go for all his projects in 2015. He's worked at start-ups, agencies, and Fortune 500s. His passion for sharing knowledge leads him to write blogs, books, and present at user groups and conferences. Sam also works as an instructor, teaching Go and other topics. Sam's favorite thing is being at home, watching a good film, with his family and his dog Waffles.
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Andrew Hayes has 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, including 3 years working with Go. Andrew has worked in a number of areas within the software industry, some which include storage, networking, DevOps, and cloud. He enjoys sharing knowledge by creating tutorials online and speaking at conferences. In his spare time he enjoys camping and fishing.
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Daniel Erno Szabo is a 28-year-old IT geek. He is currently working as a DevOps engineer for an American company in Hungary. His main profile is automation and custom solutions based on different languages covering Windows and Linux. His favorite language is Python, but he is also fluent in Ruby, PowerShell, and C#. He loves learning, teaching, and sharing his knowledge with other people. In his free time, he is a YouTuber and a ferret owner.
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